This last week I've been trying contact lenses, I'd never tried them before and the optician was surprised that nobody had suggested them to me until a couple of weeks ago.
I had a 1-week (free) trial period to get used to them, starting at 4 hour for the first day and increasing by one hour each day after that, and a check-up a few days ago after 1 week, to see if my 'balls were coping with having the lenses on them.
Good news is, my eyes don't seem to be having any problems with having contacts in, although they do take me about 10 minutes to put in (and take out) as I'm squeamish!
I'm going to have daily disposable lenses as I want to alternate between them and my specs every day. Or maybe just wear them at weekends or whenever I go out. No need to wear them around the house. (I bought two pairs of specs a few weeks ago and don't want them to go to waste.)
The lenses themselves aren't quite what I imagined, they're like little cups of floppy gel, although I do sometimes get the sensation of having "something" in my eye, and my vision does go blurry for a second or two every now and then. But on the whole, I like them and I think they make me look a few years younger. Always good when you're so vain that Carly Simon can write a song about you.
Does anyone else wear contact lenses, and how long have you had them for? What did you first think when you got them, and now?